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Harvard Historical Society. Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology (illustrated with stereopticon views). Mr. F. W. Putnam. Sever...
...department of "University Notes" in this issue of the Bulletin are very full and interesting. A description of the new Jefferson Physical Laboratory, which was substantially copied into a recent number of the Advertiser, appear, as well as notes on the observatory and the Agassiz Museum. From the latter we find that "the zoological collection is now so far arranged that the public can fairly estimate the advantages of our present distribution of limited exhibitions in comparatively small rooms devoted to special objects, as compared with the usual museum arrangements, by which all the collections of an establishment are thrown...
...institution of learning is great unless it stands definitely for some great idea or traditions is one that has been newly enunciated by a committee of the Alumni Association of Cornell, in New York, and acting on this view of the cause of the decline of Cornell of recent years, the association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students has been gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious...
...glad to notice that the University crew are not discouraged by their recent misfortune in losing their regular stroke; much time, however, has to be lost in repeating some of the elementary work under the new make-up. This is particularly unfortunate at this time of the year when the weather permits good rowing and is not too warm. The crew are rowing very well in their new order; the new stroke is surpassing all expectation, and Ayers is doing remarkably well at No. 4. That our chances against Yale have been seriously impaired, it will be useless to deny...
...Lyman Abbott in a recent article on Rugby, gives a description of life at this popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees...